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title: "Bharat Bhushan Rai - SDE-1 in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Bharat Bhushan Rai, Software Engineer @Cashfree Payments | Java, Spring Boot | Distributed Systems & Microservices | IIT Guwahati based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes llava, notion, and openclaw."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/bharat-bhushan-rai/share-image"
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# Bharat Bhushan Rai on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer @Cashfree Payments \| Java, Spring Boot \| Distributed Systems & Microservices \| IIT Guwahati

## About

Hi, I am a software developer who graduated in 2023 with a B\.Tech degree \(Mechanical \+ Maths minor\) from IIT Guwahati\. Currently at Cashfree Payments, I focus on building high\-scale backend systems and optimizing financial infrastructure\. Technical Highlights \(Cashfree Payments\): Cost Efficiency: Saved $5\-6 lakhs/month by identifying and leveraging internal data to eliminate redundant APIs\. Architecture: Resolved concurrency bottlenecks via a Kafka\-based event\-driven architecture\. Product Impact: Built foreign currency support for domestic cards, unlocking approx 5 Cr GMV\. System Design: Designed a transaction classification system to optimize retry logic\. I am currently seeking SDE\-2 opportunities where I can solve complex distributed systems challenges\. Feel free to connect and DM for exchanging ideas and opportunities\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

llava

notion

openclaw

replit

## Work experience

SDE\-1 at Cashfree Payments, Feb 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 3 mos, ◦ Eliminated a redundant third party paid API by identifying and leveraging existing internal data, resulting in cost savings of 5–6 lakhs/month\. ◦ Designed a system to classify transaction failures into business declines and technical declines, enabling better analytical insights and forming the foundation for retry logic optimization\. ◦ Implemented a retry mechanism for soft\-declined transactions on the same payment gateway, improving international card transaction success rate by 1–2%\. ◦ Resolved concurrency issues in high\-frequency metadata update flows by identifying bottlenecks and designing a Kafka based event\-driven architecture, improving system reliability and consistency\. ◦ Built support for foreign currency transactions on domestic cards, unlocking a new revenue stream with approx 5 Cr GMV, expected to grow with increasing international merchant adoption\.

SDE\-1 at Joyride Games, Jun 2023 \- Feb 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ◦ Developed framework to download new assets in runtime and integrate it into existing architecture, in order to prevent force\-updates when new assets are required to be pushed for every app user\. ◦ Integrated Firebase Remote Config for cloud\-based feature toggling, and used Firebase A/B Testing to enable data\-driven decision\-making and hence enhancing user experience and business performance\. ◦ Implemented the referral system to increase organic growth and it also included real\-time application tracking on which referral links were shared, which improved marketing strategy based on application used\. ◦ Implemented deep\-linking to navigate inside the application in order to fulfil various monetary use cases and improve the user experience\. ◦ Developed and maintained RESTful API endpoints using Go, ensuring robust and scalable architecture while also implementing their business logic

## Education

under gradute, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati

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